The TV series "The World of Man" is a hit, and the bridge section about zhiqing and poetry is particularly interesting. For example, Zhou Rong, the second sister of the Zhou family, in the tide of the times when intellectual youth went to the mountains and went to the countryside, she rushed to the remote and poor mountains of Guizhou for her lover who loved to write poetry... The play also wrote that the poet recited poems in memory of Premier Zhou at a small station during the journey, which attracted a large number of people to watch and copy...
The choreographer wrote about suffering and poverty, as well as poetry and distance: however, regrettably, "The World" lacks an important background - the long poem "Song of Ideals". That is the passion and romance of a generation of young people!
Sun
Snow white
Blue sky......
Ride the East Wind
Flocks of geese flying in primrose.
Depart from Beijing, where the sun rises
Fly to
Pagoda Hill,
Settle in
On both sides of the Yan River.
Welcome!
New comrades of the Commando,
A new member of our commune.
…………
Go ahead, go ahead!
Facing the storm,
Facing the light of the fire,
Greeting the thunder,
Facing the waves,
Embrace communism
Bright red
sun!
"Song of Ideals" is a long poem of more than 80,000 words and more than 500 lines, signed as "collective creation of workers, peasants, and soldiers in Peking University". After being published by the People's Literature Publishing House in 1974, it was copied on a small scale. On January 25, 1976, the revised "Song of Ideals" was published in full in the battlefield columns of the 5th and 6th editions of people's dailys. The editor's note reads: "'Song of Ideals' is a political lyric poem collectively created by some workers, peasants, and soldiers in the Department of Chinese of Peking University in 1974. It reflects the spiritual outlook of the vast number of knowledgeable young people who have tempered and grown up in the course of going up to the mountains and going to the countryside and in the educational revolution. In the current debate on the education front, comrades from Tsinghua, Peking University, and other institutions have repeatedly recited and read this vigorous and passionate poem. This shows that it meets the needs of the struggle to consolidate and develop the victorious achievements of the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution and the Educational Revolution. This newspaper published this poem for more comrades to read, and used it to counter the right-leaning trend of the educational circles and to refute the strange theories such as attacking the "low quality" of the workers, peasants, and soldiers. ”
After the publication of this long poem in the People's Daily, it immediately caused a sensation, especially after the soundtrack of the Central People's Radio was broadcast, it began to be widely circulated among young people in factories, rural areas, and troops, and it was even more well known among the young people, and many people could recite it in large sections. Some young people also wrote poems imitating the Song of Ideals, including themselves. At that time, I served in an artillery regiment of the army, and according to the language style of "Song of Ideals", I wrote a long poem about my experience as a young man in the countryside, about a few hundred lines, and before I was finished, I was demobilized and returned to the place and entered the factory. It was a heavy blow to me, and I rarely wrote poetry after I became a writer.
Gao Hongshi, one of the authors of "Song of Ideals", later became a famous female writer
The impact of "Song of Ideals" on that generation of intellectuals was far-reaching. Although at that time, the People's Daily associated it with the "fight back against the right-leaning overturning of the case in the education circles", but the reader felt the passion of youth, the ideal romance; saw the spiritual outlook of the Zhiqing group - healthy, bright and bold! To tell you the truth, after "Song of Ideals", I have never read a poem that makes me feel so excited and bloody!
Of course, due to the advent of the special era, "Song of Ideals" inevitably has empty sentences in the form of slogans and slogans, and even some content that is incompatible with today's ideas or inappropriate, but we have to admit that she is still a rare excellent poem of that era, and it will also occupy a place in the history of contemporary literature.